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Governor Tom Corbett Wednesday announced that an $18 million state and federal investment will improve safety and operations at 35 Pennsylvania airports that support more than 2,600 jobs.
The governor said expanded runways at Pennsylvania's public-use airports will make landing safer for airplanes, ensure that airports meet business and community demands and continue to support more than 300,000 jobs
The state portion of funding – $904,981 from PennDOT's aviation development program – comes from the state's jet fuel tax and leverages $904,981 in local matching funds.
The program complements the new Multi-Modal Fund, created by Act 89, which dedicates $5 million to aviation in this fiscal year alone.
In November, Corbett signed Act 89, a far-reaching transportation program that clears the way for significant investments in all transportation assets.
The Federal Aviation Administration is providing $17.1 million in grants through the block grant program, which is funded through taxes collected nationally on airline tickets, freight waybills, international departure fees, and the sale of aviation fuel.
Airports receive up to 90 percent of eligible project costs for projects included in Pennsylvania's 12-year transportation program.
Public-use airports in the state are eligible for the aviation development program.
Airports eligible for the federal block grant program include: general aviation airports, designated reliever airports, and non-primary commercial service airports (those with fewer than 10,000 annual passengers) that are part of the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.
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[[caption-width-right:316:The Wonder Children from ''Princess Belle-Etoile'', with stars on their foreheads]]
[[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking Biological clocks]] are [[TheOldestOnesInTheBook nothing new.]] The childless older woman or older couple has been a staple of folklore and FairyTales. Typically, one's first introduction to such a character will be the phrase, "Character X had always wanted a child." [[LawOfInverseFertility Which, of course, guarantees infertility.]]
However, in the realm of fairy tales, this is never the end of the story. Through ThePowerOfLove, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishing]], MosesInTheBullrushes, or some other [[DeusExMachina supernaturally-empowered]] device, a child will come into the life or lives of the poor, childless person or couple. However, due to the unusual circumstances of his or her birth, the child given to the couple is a little bit... unusual. They have amazing magical powers, or they have a strange appearance, or something similar. This is the WonderChild.
While a WonderChild often appears from some supernatural source or is [[MysticalPregnancy conceived in some magical circumstances]], they are, occasionally, merely [[ObliviousAdoption adoptees]] whose real parents were significantly less mundane, resulting in MuggleFosterParents. Regardless of their origins, they frequently have some sort of [[TheQuest quest]] or goal to fulfill by the story's end. Compare ChangelingFantasy, though the two can overlap.
If their appearance is unusual, they often feature as the ShapeshiftingLover; either the wedding transforms them or inaugurates a time when they can switch back and forth.
The term comes from folklorists; strictly speaking the wished-for child is the Wish Child, and the marvelous child is the Wonder Child, but they have ''always'' had substantial overlap.
[[folder: Anime ]]
* Although younger than most of the above examples, Isamu and Ai Amami wished on a falling star for a child. The "star" turned out to be a [[GaoGaiGar giant mechanical lion]], who delivered their wish [[DeliveryStork directly]]. Interestingly, when Galeon shows up again as part of Gao Gai Gar, they start worrying that it will come to take their son Mamoru ''back''.
* Goku of ''{{Dragonball}}'' was adopted by Grampa Gohan (who he eventually named his son after) after he fell to Earth in his pod as an infant. Even as a baby he exhibited superhuman strength.
* Although altogether average kids, the Katsura sisters fall into this category for ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''. There's nothing inherently special about them, but their adopted parents were unable to have children of their own, so when Yukiji was looking for foster parents and chose her former teacher and his wife, they were probably thought of as this.
* Guts from ''{{Berserk}}'' serves as a much darker example of this trope. Sys, a young woman who had recently miscarried her own child, is grieving her loss and is on the verge of going insane. But when all hope is lost, what does she pass by? Why, a baby! ... that was just born from its mother's dead and hanged corpse! ... [[NauseaFuel Yay!]]
** More fun: the group of mercenaries she was in thought the baby was dead, too. So when she cradled it, their leader knocked it out of her hands... and when it hit a puddle, it cried. And that's how main character Guts managed to survive infancy. Yes, his life sucked from ''birth''.
[[folder: Comic Books ]]
* An elderly, childless farm couple wish that they had a child. [[{{Superman}} They find a baby in a rocket, who has Powers And Abilities Far Beyond Those Of Mortal Men]].
* A queen wanted a child badly, but lived in a land with no men. So she made a clay statue of a baby, and the gods, in reward for her faithfulness, [[WonderWoman turned it into a real girl]].
[[folder: Fairy Tales ]]
* The fairy tale "Hans-my-Hedgehog" involved a couple who wanted a child, but who had difficulty having one--until the woman says, "I wouldn't care if he were ugly as a hedgehog!" She then, naturally, has a baby who looks like a hedgehog. This was later adapted into a well-loved episode of ''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Jim Henson's]] Series/TheStoryteller.''
* "Literature/{{Thumbelina}}" is, of course, about an older woman who plants a magic barley seed. The eponymous girl appears from the flower that grows from the seed. As her name would suggest, she's only a few inches tall.
* "Literature/TomThumb" is similar to Thumbelina, but with a male hero.
* "Momotaro" is a Japanese fairy tale similar to "Thumbelina", only instead of a flower, the tiny titular character appears inside of of a peach found floating down the river. Or, in the earliest version of the story, the peach [[FountainOfYouth makes the old couple young again,]] so they can have a second chance to have a baby.
** This is used as the Cyclops alternate's backstory in an X-Men Elseworlds story. The twist is that the pit from the peach is in Cyclops' eye socket, and he can use his laser-vision in that eye by removing it.
* "Literature/TheGingerbreadMan", though unfortunately for the couple, the speedy youngster soon dies.
* ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter''/''The Tale of Princess Kaguya:'' A bamboo cutter finds a tiny thumb-sized, glowing baby inside a bamboo stem. He takes her home to his wife and they name her Kaguya-hime--she grows up to a normal-sized, unearthly beauty who many men, including the Emperor, fall in love with. She ends up returning to whence she came--the moon. This space alien subtext is stronger depending on the variation you read.
** This one is retold in a side quest in ''{{Okami}}''. [[spoiler: She leaves in a ''spaceship''.]]
** This fairytale is also referenced in RahXephon.
** Likewise, this is part of the backstory for the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} game ''Imperishable Night''.
* There's a Japanese folk tale in which a farmer and his wife raise a baby rabbit as a human; in return, when a tanuki kills the wife (and [[ImAHumanitarian feeds it to the farmer]]), the grown-up rabbit hunts down and kills it out of filial piety. (Almost like ''UsagiYojimbo''.)
* Issun-boshi ("One Inch Boy"): The wife of a childless couple prays to have a child, even if he's only one-inch tall. Said one-inch child comes into being and is raised by the couple. Issun then ventures into the city and becomes a bodyguard for a princess, despite being small and ridiculed for it. He and the princess are attacked by a demon one day, and said demon swallows Issun whole, but spits him out because Issun kept poking the demon from the inside with a pin. The demon flees, leaving behind a "Lucky Mallet", which is used to make Issun grow to normal size.
** This one is also referenced in ''Okami'' with the character Issun and the Ryoshima part of the story. The Lucky Mallet in this case is used to make the protagonist smaller. And leads into the version of the one mentioned above.
** And the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, where the Mallet ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or some similarly-named item]]) inflicts and removes [[IncredibleShrinkingMan the Mini status]].
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/facetiousnights/night2_fable1.html The Pig King]]", the child is born a pig. Unusually, the queen had not made a rash wish about any child, even a pig; this was the caprice of three [[TheFairFolk fairies]].
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/2myrtle1911.html The Myrtle]]", the child is born as a sprig of myrtle, after her mother expressed a rash wish for a child, even a sprig of myrtle.
* In " Literature/TheDancingWaterTheSingingAppleAndTheSpeakingBird", the heroine says that if the king marries her, she will bear "two sons with apples in their hands, and a daughter with a star on her brow". Earnestly desiring such children, the king marries her, and she does. (Complications arise when her sisters try to murder them.)
** Similarly, in "[[http://www.maerchenlexikon.de/etexte/707/te707-004.htm The Boys with the Golden Stars]]"; in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/princessbelleetoile.html Princess Belle-Etoile]]", a literary FairyTale; and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/facetiousnights/night4_fable3.html Ancilotto, King of Provino]]".
* "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/073.htm Stan Bolovan]]", a fairy tale where a couple wish for children, the more the better, can't have too many... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor aaand suddenly there are a hundred kids in the house]] and the husband has to go out to get money.
* The Chinese-Tibetan fairy tale "Qing Wa Qi Shou" (The Rider in Green Clothes), which is one of the most important folk interpretations of the political relationship between those two historical states, has a very old couple who always wanted a child. The elderly woman finally goes pregnant for four months and bears a FROG. Late it is shown that in an rare occurence, after he gets his wife, the frog is able to turn into a handsome, skilled rider for a certain festival. But the wife stays at home and accidentally burns his frog skin. Therefore, the young frog man must die, if she hadn't done that he would have been that saviour of the tibetan people, turned the unhospital lands into fertile ground and China would have been a tribute state to Tibet instead the other way round. See?
[[folder: Literature ]]
* Lynne Reid Banks's ''Literature/TheFairyRebel'' is about something like this. A childless couple saves the life of a fairy, who decides she owes them one and agrees to give them the child they long for. The child is mostly normal, but she has a streak of blue hair which has magical properties.
* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', the blue fairy brings the titular puppet to life because his creator, Gepetto, wanted a son.
* In the medieval ChivalricRomance of ''Robert the Devil'' and all its variants, the parents [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wish for a child -- whether from God or the Devil]]. The son is therefore born possessed by evil. (Fortunately for him, in due time, he repents and does pentience for his evil. This results in either [[RagsToRoyalty marrying]] [[StandardHeroReward the princess]] or becoming a saint.)
* Creator/TanithLee does a takeoff on this in one of her Flat Earth books. The lady who wants a child has a date with an angel. They kiss, and she is told she'll conceive the next time she and her husband are together; she does, and thereby hangs the tale.
* Naturally, this occurs in Literature/TheBible, with Sarah giving birth to Isaac. Sarah was 90 years old too old to bear a child, presumably past menopause. But if Yahweh makes a plan that involves the son of Abraham (who is 100) and Sarah founding the Jewish nation, then Sarah will miraculously give birth even though she's past menopause.
** Also in the Bible, Hannah, who vows that she will give her child back to the service of God if she is blessed to have one.
** There's also a couple of times in the Old Testament where God makes a woman, or the women of a nation, infertile for a period of time, and then makes them fertile later on. Usually after some prayer and atonement has occurred.
** In the N.T. we have John the Baptist, and in the NT Apocrypha, the Virgin Mary.
* There's a story in one of the ''Cricket'' magazines that features something like this. The man and wife don't have any kids. However, one day the man is doing his job as a woodcutter, and he finds a golden coccoon. He takes it home, and they put it by the fire. The next day there is a baby girl with purple eyes wrapped in a golden cloak. It turns into a TearJerker moment when [[spoiler: Her parents tell her not to touch the plant that they found her cocoon on, but one day she ''has'' to, as it will heal her father from an illness. She gathers up as much of the plant as she can, and after she gets home- she turns back into a butterfly.]]
* In Norton Juster's ''ThePhantomTollbooth'''s BackStory, the old king had two sons, but regretted having no daughters, when he found two golden-haired girl babies in his garden: the Princesses Rhyme and Reason.
* In the Laurel Series, Laurel was left on the doorstep of her parents, and later learns she is a fairy.
* In Creator/VictoriaForester's ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCouldFly'', Piper is a surprisingly late birth to a childless couple, and she can (surprise!) [[{{Flight}} fly]]. It subverts the rest, as her parents were shocking and ashamed to have a child so late -- it's just not the way things are done -- and her mother's first reaction is that such results are to be expected what things aren't done the way they're supposed to be done.
[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* In the last season of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', Clark finds out that he is unable to impregnate Lois due to being an alien, even though they both want children. The last episode ends with them mysteriously finding a child in their living room with no explanation. The story probably would have been something like this trope, except [[ExecutiveMeddling it was cancelled]].
** A similar plot was used in the comics, where it was revealed that the kid was actually the son of Superman's nemesis General Zod and his wife.
** Superman himself is, of course, an example of this trope.
* Baby William of ''Series/TheXFiles'' is this. By all accounts, he shouldn't exist and how he came to be when his mother apparently had no ova was never established. And because he is a Wonder Child and "more human than human", all the bad guys want him.
[[folder: Music ]]
* "Hijo de la Luna", by the Spaniard group Mecano, tells the story of a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romany]] woman who prayed to the moon for a husband. She got it, but in return, she had to give the moon her first child. He turned out to be an albino; the man thought she cheated on him because he was white instead of dark-skinned, killed her, and abandoned the kid in the mountains. Since that day, the moon becomes full whenever the kid is happy, and wanes to become a rocker whenever the kid is sad.
[[folder: Video Games ]]
* A modern version: In the Game Boy Advance RPG ''Robopon 2,'' an alien crash-lands near the house of an old couple and disguises herself as a human little girl. The old couple takes her in. When her ship gets repaired and it comes time for her to leave, the couple tells her that they've come to think of her as their own child. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awww.]] To thank them for their kindness, she both promises to visit them from the moon as often as she can, and uses her alien powers to [[FountainOfYouth give them back their youth.]]
* The origin story of the little girl in ''PrincessMaker 2'' follows this: She is a "pure soul" sent by the gods to live with a human hero so that she can learn about the world.
** The origin for ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' is somewhat similar [[spoiler: except with aliens]], but not the first game in the series, which is more a case of Swapped At Birth.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'', the protagonist Bobbin is given birth when the childless Lady Cygna weaves a magical thread into the Great Pattern, after which she is banished by being [[{{Animorphism}} turned into a swan]].
[[folder: Web Comics ]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Bob and Jean were brought together by their shared status as "parents" of [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly the Monster]]—a fuzzy pink lab accident whose spontaneous generation they were responsible for. Apart from being pink and fuzzy with "claws, [[CuteLittleFangs fangs,]] and a tail," Molly is also a super-intelligent GadgeteerGenius. And also incredibly naive.
[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* In [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon the Disney version]] of ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', Hercules' adoptive parents have been praying to the gods for a child. When they find the baby Hercules, with the symbol of the gods on a medal around his neck, they naturally assume the gods sent him to them. (He is, of course, actually a god made near-mortal in this version, [[HijackedByJesus dissimilar to the original myth as it is.]])
* ''TheFlintstones''. Betty and Barney tried for a child shortly after Pebbles' birth, and had no luck. Then they wished on a falling star, and Bamm-Bamm turned up on their doorstep shortly thereafter. He had super-strength and could walk even as an infant. The super strength stayed with him all the way to adulthood.
* Naturally, ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}''.
* The movie JosephKingOfDreams had a song titled ''Miracle Child''
* Yugo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', who's a DoorstopBaby who grew up having the power create [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} mystical space-bending portals]].
* In ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', Kala and Kerchak lose their son to Sabor. Tarzan loses his parents to Sabor. Kala and Tarzan both fill the void in each others' lives. It takes Kerchak much longer to accept Tarzan as his son, but he eventually does [[spoiler:right before he dies.]]
[[folder: Real Life ]]
* Otto Rank's book ''The Myth of the Birth of the Hero'' points out that, in fact '''everyone''' is a Wonder Child, having gone a tremendous transformation from a foetus living in the mother's womb into an air-breating, independently living person.


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The American Red Cross wants to save a life in Columbia today. The Save a Life Tour 2003, a nationwide campaign to encourage Americans to make regular blood donations, will be at Memorial Union on the MU campus between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
"It's an awesome opportunity for us to educate 23,000 students and the city of Columbia about the ongoing need for blood donations and give everyone an opportunity to save a life," said Anne Farrow, donor recruitment account manager for the American Red Cross for Boone and Cooper Counties.
MU fraternity Beta Theta Pi will sponsor the blood drive and hopes to get some other Greek houses and MU students to participate. Today's goal is to collect 150 units of blood.
"I hope that our efforts will both benefit the community at large, and the Greek community and everyone that participates," said Justin Bloss, president of Beta Theta Pi. "I also hope the American Red Cross will reach its goal and raise awareness about the importance of giving blood."
It was here in Columbia that the world record was set on April 7, 1999, for the most blood donations in one day, with 3,155 units, Farrow said. Most of these donations were from the Greek community.
Columbia was chosen as a tour stop, Farrow said, as a "thank you" to the city for providing such a great donor bank in the past.
The nationwide goal for the tour is 3 million blood donations. As of Friday, the total donations for the campaign, which began May 20 and runs until mid-November, had reached more than 1.3 million units.
To encourage growth in each city's level of blood donation from last year, the Red Cross is conducting a Community Challenge. In this spirit of competition, Columbia City Council members accepted a challenge from their counterparts in Jefferson City to see which tour stop will collect more donations. The tour will stop in Jefferson City on Thursday.
"I urge citizens to participate. Nothing can be more satisfying than giving the gift of life and beating Jefferson City at the same time," Mayor Pro Tem Jim Loveless said in a press release.
To further support the blood drive, Loveless has declared today "American Red Cross Save a Life Day" in Columbia.
A Red Cross Mobile Museum will be at Memorial Union today, featuring real-life recipient stories and interactive exhibits that explain what happens to blood that is donated.
Donors will receive a tour T-shirt and be entered in a raffle to win St. Louis Rams items and first-aid kits. Papa John's Pizza will provide food for the day.
Anyone who is at least 17 years old, weighs at least 110 pounds, has not donated blood in the last 56 days and is healthy can be a donor. For more information, visit www.givelife.org.


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Mohammed Rafi is nothing short of a legend ("Forgetting the phenomenal talent of Rafi?" Open Page, Oct. 25). His melodious voice remains a favourite of millions — almost three decades since his death. He immortalised the music, lyrics and video sequences of many musicians, lyricists and filmmakers. He could sing for all variations and moods. Most important, he was humble and a good human being. It is indeed time the government recognised his contribution.
Pratish Thakur
The article has echoed the views of millions of Rafi's fans. Often I have wondered why a singer like Rafi did not receive the recognition due to him. I second the writer's view that Bharat Ratna and the Dada Saheb Phalke awards be conferred on Rafi posthumously. In fact, an award can be instituted in his name.
S.S. Vasan
In his tribute to Rafi, the author has been carried away by his admiration for the singer. His contention that Rafi was Mukesh, Talat Mahmood, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar all rolled into one is unacceptable. Rafi was one among many singers though very popular. He had his own fan following as others did. Lata Mangeshkar is the queen of melody while Rafi was one among the many kings. Of course, he was a great singer worthy of awards. But whether he deserves Bharat Ratna is debatable.
R. Ramachandra Ayyar
Keywords: Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, world of music, Bharat Ratna


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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Scientific Name: | Agapornis nigrigenis | |||||||||
Species Authority: | Sclater, 1906 | |||||||||
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable C2a(ii) ver 3.1 | |||
Year Published: | 2013 | |||
Date Assessed: | 2013-11-01 | |||
Assessor(s): | BirdLife International | |||
Reviewer(s): | Butchart, S. | |||
Contributor(s): | Aspinwall, D., Dodman, T., Irwin, M., Leonard, P., Rockingham-Gill, D., Warburton, L. & Buys, N. | |||
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Ekstrom, J., Evans, M., Pilgrim, J., Shutes, S., Starkey, M., Symes, A., Taylor, J. | |||
Justification: This species is listed as Vulnerable because it has a small population which is undergoing a continuing decline, principally owing to the gradual dessication of water bodies within a highly localised range. |
History: |
Range Description: | Agapornis nigrigenis occurs patchily in south-west Zambia between the Kafue river to the north and the Zambezi river to the south (Warburton 1999b), with an Extent of Occurrence of c.14,400 km2, within which the core breeding areas cover c.2,500 km2 (Dodman 1995b, Dodman et al. 2000). The species is found in an area of 4,550 km2 of mopane woodland, 3,200 km2 of which occurs in the Zambezi catchment (Dodman 1995c). It used to occur more widely, although some isolated historical records may reflect feral populations, as may unconfirmed records from the eastern Caprivi region of Namibia(Dodman 1995b, Dodman 1997). However, these might refer to birds from wild populations (Dodman 1995c). There have also been unconfirmed records from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The core population can be split into two subpopulations during the dry season, those in the Zambezi catchment (c.6,200 birds in 1994) and the Kafue catchment (c.3,800 birds in 1994) (Dodman 1995c). In 1994, the overall population density in presumed breeding habitat was c.2.2 birds/km2 (this does not reflect their clumped distribution [L. S. Warburton in litt. 1999, 2000]) and the total population was estimated to be 10,000 individuals (Dodman 1995c, Dodman et al. 2000). Evidence from farmers and bird-trappers suggests that this is a considerably lower total than in the early 20th century (Moreau 1948, Dodman et al. 2000). |
Countries: | Native: Zambia |
Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | The population, based on surveys in 1994, has been estimated at c.10,000 individuals, however due to suspected declines in the population since this year, the population is placed in the range bracket 2,500-9,999 mature individuals. This equates to 3,750-14,999 individuals, rounded here to 3,500-15,000 individuals. |
Population Trend: | Decreasing |
Habitat and Ecology: | It inhabits deciduous woodland, dominated by mopane Colophospermum, not Baikiaea (Benson and Irwin 1967) as formerly reported(Moreau 1948), where permanent supplies of surface water exist (Dodman 1995c, Dodman et al. 2000). It commutes to adjoining habitats, such as riverine vegetation and agricultural areas, to forage and drink (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). It requires daily access to water, and needs to drink twice each day (Dodman 1995c, Warburton 1999a, b, Dodman et al. 2000, Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005d). In the dry season it congregates in large flocks of up to 800 or more in some areas (Warburton 1999b). It relies on water sources that are not regularly disturbed by humans and livestock (Warburton and Perrin 2005d, T. Dodman in litt. 2007). It breeds in holes in mature mopane trees near roosting sites(Dodman 1995b, Warburton and Perrin 2005a), during January-May(L. S. Warburton in litt. 1999, 2000, Warburton 2003). Fidelity to nest-sites is suspected(Warburton 2003). The breeding season coincides with the annual maximum rainfall and the beginning of the dry season, and pairs usually raise a single clutch (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005c). Broods of six and seven nestlings have been observed (Warburton and Perrin 2005c). The species roosts in naturally formed cavities in live mopane trees (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005a). Food largely consists of annual grass seeds, other seeds of annual herbs and ripening crop seeds (millet and sorghum) (Dodman 1995c, Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005b). They have also been observed to consume invertebrates, leaves, flowers, nectar, bark, lichen, resin and soil (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005b). The crop-ripening season coincides with the species's breeding season (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005d) and its appetite for crop seeds has earned it a reputation locally as a pest(Dodman 1995c). In south-west Zambia, it has been recorded that 18% of millet seed heads suffered more than 20% damage from the species during the ripening season (Warburton 2003). Flocks were observed feeding in sorghum and millet fields in early 2012, mainly east of the Machile River (N. Buys in litt. 2012). |
Systems: | Terrestrial; Freshwater |
Major Threat(s): | Three factors are thought to have caused its decline the past century: heavy exploitation for the cage-bird trade from the 1920s to the 1960s (Moreau 1948, Dodman 1995c), gradual desiccation of its habitat (Moreau 1948, Dodman 1995c), which is thought to be (currently) the main threat given the highly localised range of the species (Warburton 2003), and the partial replacement of sorghum and millet crops, (an attractive food source [Dodman 1995b, L. S. Warburton in litt. 1999, 2000]), with maize, between c.1930 and 1950 (Dodman 1995c, Dodman et al. 2000). There is evidence that the wild-caught trade in this species is currently at a very low level, with only isolated incidences of trade and export (Dodman 1995c, Warburton and Perrin 2005c), although it is clear that any international demand would be met eagerly(Warburton and Perrin 2005a, d). Some birds are caught for subsistence consumption and it is also persecuted as a pest, however these birds would usually be eaten as well (Dodman 1995c, Warburton and Perrin 2005c). Farmers take measures to mitigate damage to crops, but they are largely ineffective and rarely lethal (Dodman 1995c, Warburton 2003). The current levels of hunting and capture are unlikely to have any serious long-term impact on the population, but could threaten local populations suffering from the effects of desiccation (Dodman 1995c). Recently there may have been local declines due to loss of surface water supplies in the dry season, perhaps due to long-term climate change(Dodman 1995b, c, Warburton 1999b, Dodman et al. 2000). The number of permanent water sources in mopane woodland has decreased since the early 20th century(Dodman 1995c). The low availability of water in the dry season is probably the principal factor in the disappearance of permanent populations from the Bovu and Sinde Rivers, and changes to the Ngweze River population (Dodman 1995c). This is exacerbated by a decrease in the annual rainfall in the species's habitat of, on average, about 5 mm per year between 1950 and 1995, increasing the species's reliance on artificial water sources (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). The recent establishment of hand-pumped boreholes along the catchments of the Ngweze, Sichifulo, and Machile rivers may lead to a decrease in the availability of surface water as people reduce their water source creation activities in riverbeds (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). In some areas, water pools are poisoned to kill fish and this can impact the species (Dodman 1995c). The species may be threatened by the declining dry-season availability of water in temporary rivers in south-western Zambia, due to declining levels of rainfall (T. Dodman in litt. 2007). Mopane woodland is exploited for firewood and timber, though the habitat is regenerating and encroaching into other habitats in some areas (Dodman 1995c). Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease Virus is present in the wild population (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005c), but there is no evidence that this is a serious threat. |
Conservation Actions: |
Conservation Actions Underway CITES Appendix II. Trapping of birds for trade is now banned (T. Dodman in litt. 2000) although a number of captive populations still exist and flourish. In Zambia, a trade ban on wild-caught birds was implemented in 1930 (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). Approximately 35% of its habitat lies within Kafue National Park and surrounding Game Management Areas (P. Leonard in litt. 1999, T. Dodman in litt. 2000), whilst most of its core range is included within the Machile and Kafue National Park IBAs (Leonard 2005). Detailed research programmes on this species were underway in the 1990s (Dodman 1995b, Warburton 1999a, b, Dodman et al. 2000, T. Dodman in litt. 2000) from which reports have been published. An education project focusing on the species was conducted in south-west Zambia in September 2001, involving local schools, villagers and Zambia Wildlife Authority scouts (Warburton 2003). Conservation Actions Proposed Conduct regular (e.g. monthly) counts at selected sites (such as water sources in the dry season) to monitor its population, concentrating on the core distribution(Dodman 1995c, Dodman et al. 2000, Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005d). Conduct annual monitoring in areas such as the mid-Machile and Sichifulo rivers and the Mabiya pools region of south Kafue National Park and monitor the availability of surface water in the dry season (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). Investigate its status in the eastern Caprivi (Dodman (1995c, Dodman et al. 2000). Encourage its return to former range areas, initially through piloting the provision of undisturbed water sources and strips of sorghum and millet(Warburton 1999b). Continue a programme of environmental education involving school-visits and meetings with farming communities (Dodman 1995c, Dodman et al. 2000, Warburton 2003) to reduce trapping and disturbance at water sources (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). Provide training in ornithology and conservation for potential local bird guides and hold meetings with villagers on the protection of resources such as trees and water (Dodman 1995c). Maintain and create water resources with minimal disturbance (Warburton 2003). Continue to enforce the trade ban on wild-caught birds of this species (Warburton 2003, Warburton and Perrin 2005d) and further develop captive breeding programmes. Investigate the effect of burning on the availability of grass seeds (Warburton and Perrin 2005b). Manage water sources to encourage use by the species, and assess the impact of pumped boreholes on surface water supplies (Warburton and Perrin 2005d). Identify a selection of reasonably accessible sites where visitors can go to see the species, and ensure options for revenue generation through ecotourism, in collaboration with BirdWatch Zambia (T. Dodman in litt. 2012). |
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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
By Farm Aid and Homegrown.org
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I am the Flock-Tender here on HOMEGROWN.org. I am keeping a chronicle of my experiences learning, living, and growing a homegrown lifestyle fresh out of college.
It's a question I find myself asking more often as I delve deeper into a homegrown lifestyle – What does it really mean to live HOMEGROWN? Am I doing this right?
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Growing up as one of five in a rural New England town, I was accustomed to canning jam, green tomato pickles, and whatever else we could preserve, digging for potatoes and harvesting lettuce, wearing hand-me-down clothes and playing in the woods. We lived more simply than most of our neighbors. My parents built our log home together, we raised animals, and we ate dinner together at home, usually sourcing from the garden or from local farms. It was our way of life and it was second nature to me. We lived "homegrown" in order to survive, and to keep traditions alive in our family – and it was easy for us.
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Going to college in the "big city" allowed me luxuries that I didn't have as a youngin'. There was a movie theatre within walking distance! I could get pizza at 3 am! I could get across town and back without a car! It was a new and exciting way of life for me. I still enjoy the buzz of the city after four years of living it, but it isn't the best environment to fully enjoy the greener pastures of a homegrown lifestyle.
Maybe it's something instinctual inside of me that yearns for a simplified, way of life. I want to live homegrown, but I'm not sure that I can do it on my own. I've enjoyed perusing local farmers' market and making meals out of what I can source locally. I find recycling, composting, and repurposing fun and easy to do. Crafting and DIY-ing feeds my creativity and imagination. I love caring for container "gardens" and talking about growing and planting with others. But, am I doing enough to be "homegrown" and am I doing it correctly?
I'm not canning or preserving on my own. I'm not generating my own energy. I'm not growing everything I need to survive, nor am I purchasing solely from farmers. I'm not making my own soaps, laundry detergent, or cosmetics (yet!). I'm still drinking mass-produced beer. And, I don't feel that I'm really changing the world. It's daunting to think how far I have to go. Living in a shoebox apartment on a shoestring budget, it's daunting to think of all the "shoulda, coulda, wouldas" that would make my life more sustainable, my footprint smaller and myself a better steward of the land. Sometimes, I'm just plain old overwhelmed.
But, I have found that this movement is less about doing everything, and more about doing something. I want to live simpler and more self-sufficiently. I want to grow my own food and utilize renewable energy. I want to make my own clothing and cosmetics, but I am 22, fresh out of the dormitories, and just getting started on an independent life. I am a newbie, and I'm not going to change the way I live overnight.
Instead of being overwhelmed, I'm channeling that energy into making the most of what I have where I am in my own life, while contributing to a greater social movement in the meantime. The more and more time I spend talking with folks who are also attempting to live homegrown, the more and more I feel that I am part of an alternative system of doing, eating, crafting, and spending. The integrity and importance of this movement keeps me going on my path to establish a homegrown life. And, I realize that I am doing more to become self-sufficient every day! Despite needing to read books about canning, Google garden terminology, and research the ingredients in purchases that I do have to make as an urban resident, I am educating myself and about living homegrown, while teaching others new skills, too, which is at the heart of the matter!
We all can't live as off-the-grid purists overnight, but we can follow a path to our own version of homegrown living. We can plant the seeds of change first by informing ourselves and learning from those who emulate homegrown living – the homesteading superstars we all strive to be. This dissemination of information and sharing of skills via hands-on experience or through a resource like HOMEGROWN.org builds a community within the movement, and increases motivation to realize our own homegrown goals. Whether that is growing herbs in a window box, starting a farm, or building an Earth house, we can all find ways to live homegrown and to inspire others to do the same.
Share your homegrown living tips. What motivates you? Why do you chose to live HOMEGROWN? Add to our discussion and keep the movement alive!
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Weapons, yes. But for a long, long, time, many reports of these tunnels to bring in food and medicine, along with other items past the Israeli blockade far exceeded the needs of the people of Gaza, and were reported in most of the world, just not often in the U.S., hmm, AIPAC DOES stand for American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
If only that were true.
The tunnels take out terrorist, (murder & kidnap squads.) – Large percentage are all pointing into Israel.
The majority of the aid comes through Israel. If Hamas did not use Ambulances, prams etc to smuggle weapons & bombs into Israel then the need for draconian measures isn't needed – and should not be used.
Fact: Palestinian girl's life was saved by Israeli doctors, only for her mother to say she hopes her daughter will become a suicide bomber. Obviously reasonable for the Palestinian apologists!
perhaps you should look up the definition of "draconian measures" before you support the idea.
Weapons, yes. But for a long, long, time, many reports of these tunnels to bring in food and medicine,"
riiight. Israel donates the concrete for humanitarian reasons, they turn around and use Child labor to build these tunnels into Israel. Plans have been found to use these tunnels to kidnap and Martyr bomb Israel.
But you keep you little denial going. -
Anti Israeli links are really easy to find because the left hates the Jews and only reports in a negative way when it comes to Israel.
A Hamas spokesman,Mushri al-Masri said"Our fingers are on the trigger and our rockets are trained on Tel Aviv".
Tel Aviv, not Israeli military targets.
The same jihad jerk said the war would not be over untill the blockade ended.
How did those 16 to 20 foot long Iranian and Syrian rockets get into Gaza?You know the ones fired at Israel's nuclear power plant that were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
How many Israeli children would be dead were it not for Iron Dome.
Wait……MSNBC Al Jazeera and the other left wing haters didn't report that. -
"the left hates the Jews"
But yet the Jews continue to support and vote for the left. And then they will act like they're more intelligent and better educated than the rest of us. Go figure. -
In the news: Hamas fires rockets from compound of Christian church:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/08/gaza-bishop-hamas-fired-rockets-from-church-compound/ -
Maybe if the right wing were not so consumed with creating a Christian theocracy in the US, Jews would be more willing to vote Republican.
Jews also know that conservative Christian Republicans believe the story that a Jewish state has to be established before the Rapture can occur. I think there would be far less Christian support for the state of Israel if they weren't betting on seeing Rapture in their lifetimes, and they're pretty used to seeing people take their side for reasons less than altruistic.
On what do you base you opinion that the right wing is consumed with creating a Christian theocracy? I know many conservatives, myself included, that want nothing to do with the religious right and their social conservatism.
We could quibble that "right wing" is way farther right than "conservative". I make that distinction in my mind, but I can see how my mind may not match yours.
So, you make a good point. I am guilty of over-generalization. I apologize.
What I should have said is that, although not all conservatives are interested in creating a Christian theocracy, most of those interested in creating a Christian theocracy are right wing and vote Republican. Can we agree to that?
And in that context, I think my main point is still valid. When non-Jews start a theocracy, Jews usually suffer disproportionately, so they will not join their voting bloc.
Yes, we can agree to that. You could also make similar statements about fringe groups and agendas on the left.
However, it does seem to me that the Jewish voters in this country vote against their own self-interest by voting with the left. There are not enough individuals even just within the Republican party, to say nothing about opposing parties, to serious think that a theocracy could actually be implemented in this country. That has about as much chance of succeeding as abolishing personal property. -
Denis: show me the pictures of all that damage in Tel Aviv. Outside of a few apartments a couple years ago, never seen any released.
Again for clarity BTW, my complaints are NOT with "Israel" per se, but with LIKUD, Netanyahu,, and the murderous bunch backing him, not those Israelis and Jews around the world opposed to his actions. And not, I don't like Hamas any better, it is Palestinian Arabs (Christian as well as Muslim) I DO have sympathy for, because I've been involved in an unjust war, and so has my son… -
I was reading today about the many Mideast Arabs and Arab leaders backing Israel's defense against Hamas….I was amazed at how many want and pray that Israel wipes out Hamas once and for all.
Even some Arabs living under Hamas in Gaza are praying for Israel to liberate them from the hated dictatorship that cares nothing for the lives and deaths of Gazan citizens. They have ZERO "rights"….when Gazans protested about Hamas' actions, they were immediately shot dead…..for speaking their opinion! -
Got a link to your claim about Israeli soldiers saving a Palestinian girl?
Sure. Ask and you shall receive. (I don't understand why you don't have access to Google while you can obviously get GC.)
Huffington Post 7/14: Israeli Doctors Treat Palestinian Children Born With Heart Defects
IDF Opens Field Hospital to Treat Wounded Palestinians
Despite rockets, Israeli hospital treating Gazan children
Israeli hospitals continue to treat sick Gazans despite missile attacks
Surprisingly, I couldn't find any reporting on these stories from al Jazeera. Go figure. (But as I said, this was only page 1 of a Google search. Maybe they're out there. [I doubt it though]) - Refresh Comments.
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It's so much better if you can try a bottle before you buy in quantity, and sales tax is cheaper than paying shipping. Besides, they usually have stuff you can't buy at HEB, Kroger, etc.
I know about Soda Pop Stop, and I've even been there in person, but it's a bit of a drive...
Spec's downtown is the best that I can think of. The hot sauce selection is probably better than the soda selection.
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After a layup by Nicole Ohlde gave the Lynx their first lead since the opening half at 66-65 with 1:34 remaining, Griffith scored off a pass from DeMya Walker to put the Monarchs back ahead.
Minnesota's Katie Smith committed a turnover on the next possession, but Nicole Powell missed two free throws for Sacramento with nine seconds remaining.
Working the ball around for a potential winning shot, Vanessa Hayden got it in the post and flipped a pass to Ohlde, who made a layup as the buzzer sounded. After initially calling it a made basket, the officiating crew reversed after viewing an replay.
Griffith made 7-of-10 shots and grabbed 11 rebounds and Walker chipped in 15 points for the Monarchs, who shot 43 percent (26-of-61).
Smith scored 23 points to move past Detroit's Andrea Stinson for fourth on the league's all-time scoring list at 3,355.
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Twitter Sunday that he will work with Rascal Flatts on a song for his new album, My World 2.0. "I love @Rascal Flatts and Im honored that they are making music with me," Bieber wrote.
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Dr. Kathy Seifert, Youth Violence Expert, Unravels Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Encouraging a national debate and helping people understand the roots and prevention of young adult violence, Dr. Kathy Seifert is appearing on Fox News DC TV Morning News, La Opinion, Huffington Post, Psychology Today online, WBOC-TV, and a variety of talk radio shows.
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The expertise of Dr. Kathy Seifert on coping with trauma and preventing future acts of young adult violence will be appearing in multiple local and national media over the next week, including La Opinion, Huffington Post, Psychology Today online, Fox News DC, and WBOC-TV. Dr. Seifert, is a renowned youth violence and trauma expert and psychologist with 30 years of experience. She will attempt to unravel the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy from the perspective of why people resort to violence and the need for a national dialogue about gun availability to those not capable of handling that responsibility. She will also discuss the need for changes in mental health regulations for those that are mentally ill and also dangerous. Dr. Seifert will be giving the public guidance on supporting each other in these tragic times as a way of coping with grief.
"My heart and prayers go out to the victims and their families," says Dr. Seifert. "We must use this tragedy to start a national dialogue about our policies regarding individuals who are classified as both mentally ill and dangerous. We also need to take a hard look at gun regulations in the United States. It´s simply not enough grieving and cleaning up after a disaster like this; it´s not fair to the victims or the families of victims. The Connecticut tragedy reveals that it is time for violence prevention to take the national spotlight."
Dr. Seifert is the creator of the CARE-2, an assessment tool for youth and adolescents that are at risk for violence. As the author of the book "How Children Become Violent" (Acanthus Publishing, 2006) and a contributor to Psychology Today on youth violence and family trauma, she can offer the public a look into what is known about the minds of past mass murderers in hopes of shedding light on why Adam Lanza may have committed this horrible act and how to prevent such awful acts in the future. Dr. Seifert will be advocating for a discussion on national policy and violence prevention, and providing parents the tools they need to help their children cope with this tragedy.
There are 2 major groups of mass murderers: 1) those that are psychopathic and likely have been so since childhood following a severe, unresolved childhood trauma and a life of increasingly violent acts. 2) Those with mental illness that also have other risk factors for violence including not being in treatment, substance abuse, poor social engagement or support, fascination with firearms or the "dark side," unresolved severe childhood trauma, and a recent major life stressor with which they were unequipped to cope.
Experts agree that a propensity towards violence can begin during the earliest stages of child development with traumatic events for which a child did not receive support or therapy. This is where prevention needs to start in protecting children from abuse and neglect and if they do suffer extreme trauma to make sure that they get the services they need. Additionally, as a nation, we need to discuss: if a person is mentally ill and dangerous (not all mentally ill people are dangerous), should services be rendered involuntarily if necessary?
Frequently called upon by national media, Dr. Seifert was a commentator on CNN´s Anderson Cooper 360 on the shooting suspect Jared Loughner as well as a guest on HLN regarding the murder case of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera. In the wake of the terrible Sandy Hook school shooting and loss of innocent life, the public is left, yet again, with only questions of why this happened and what can be done to prevent similar events from occurring in the future.
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Manufacturers will be busy in the coming months dealing with continued scrutiny of safety signals, pressure to discover important new treatments, and resistance to high prices for medical products. This column will examine some of the leading policy issues on the table for 2008.
Implementing FDAAA
Woodcock is temporarily heading the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), following the departure of former CDER director Steven Galson. She is thus responsible for issuing guidances, determining the need for revised regulations, and establishing the many policies FDAAA requires under tight timeframes.
A serious complication when Pharmaceutical Technology went to press last month was that FDA was not yet able to use the added revenues authorized under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act section of FDAAA. Although FDA could start collecting the higher fees, it cannot spend the money until Congress approves its 2008 appropriations bill, which has been delayed by partisan wrangling between Democrats and the Bush administration over all federal government expenditures. Because of these circumstances, efforts to modernize FDA's adverse-event reporting system and to expand access to outside safety information to fulfill new requirements may be slow to get off the ground, as required by FDAAA.
Slowing down for safety
While implementing new programs, FDA faces the challenge of demonstrating that it has not become gun-shy about approving new drugs for market. New drug approvals were down last year, including the number of new molecular entities (NMEs) coming to market. Manufacturers complain that the agency is issuing more "approvable" letters that demand additional trials and testing before final approval, and that many approvals carry narrower indications. Black-box warnings seem to be proliferating, as well as agency safety alerts and advisory committee reviews of safety issues for certain drugs and drug classes.
In just the last few months, for example, FDA has been examining safety issues related to asthma drugs, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder products, and cold remedies for children. The agency recently issued an alert that a smoking-cessation treatment may promote behavioral changes, and that an immunosuppressant drug carries added risks for pregnant women. The possibility that osteoporosis treatments may raise cardiac risks is under review.
Ingredients Insider Cynthia ChallenerFDA Steps Up Foreign Inspections
The past six months has seen some major changes to the sterile manufacturing landscape in Europe. There have been a number of exits and acquisitions that have no doubt grabbed headlines, but has anything really changed?
Cornell Stamoran, Catalent Pharma Solutions vice-president, is elected to the board of trustees of the Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association.
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4 ways to kick your bad smoking habit to the curb
When it comes to smoking, the statistics speak for themselves. The American Lung Association says that tobacco kills Americans more than World War II. Approximately 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking and second-hand smoking each year. Those are very high numbers that could have been preventable.
The tobacco industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that's really good at making smoking look appealing to it's consumers. Shockingly, out of those consumers, some spend up to 25% of their income on cigarettes.
In order to stay healthy and keep your bank account intact, I've got 4 ways to kick your bad smoking habit to the curb:
Xylitol gum – You can choose any brand, but we get the Spry brand. It's hard for many habitual smokers to drop their cigarettes cold turkey. Like going on a diet, you start to obsess over something you feel like you're depriving yourself of. A lot of times, using something else to take it's place will do the trick. Unlike sugar-filled gum that won't do much for your dental health, these xylitol gums will improve the health of your teeth and will help curb your cigarette cravings.
Dark Chocolate – Many smokers feel a sense of pleasure when they smoke. When you get the urge to smoke, eat a little bit of dark chocolate. The dark chocolate will also give you a sense of pleasure and may relieve stress which is usually one of the reasons why people smoke.
Get Grind – A tobacco alternative that's actually healthy for you. I came across this product while watching an episode of ABC's Shark Tank. Like chewing tobacco, you would be grinding on a concentrated pouch of flavored coffee (equals 1/4 cup of coffee). Plus, you get an energy boost.
Yoga – If you don't want to replace your smoking habit with another product, you can do your Om. When you get the urge to smoke, sit down and take a few minutes to meditate. Take deep breaths in and out as you think about the clean air around you. Surprisingly, some people I've met doing yoga said that this actually does the trick!
Smoking cannot only kill you, but it can kill the innocent loved ones around you. The bad habit not only wreaks havoc on your health, but it can also effect your finances. It's time to break up with Mr. and Mrs. Cigarettes!
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It's official: Japan now has four fewer nuclear reactors than it did the day before.
That's because on April 19, one year, one month and one week after Fukushima Daiichi units 1 through 4 lost power and either melted down or blew up, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. formally announced it had taken them out of service forever, never to be restarted ever again.
JRT readers may be wondering why it took so long for this to happen. After all, by the end of March 2011, most of the fuel rods of units 1, 2 and 3 had melted, while explosions had destroyed the reactor buildings at units 1, 3 and 4. The radiation around most of those units is still so high that people can't go inside.
Tepco says its board of directors had actually bitten the bullet and decided to decommission the units last May. But they only started on the paperwork needed in December, after the government had declared the crisis stage of the Fukushima Daiichi accident to be over.
Since this wasn't a routine power-plant decommissioning, it took about three months for the company to confirm what the right procedure under Japan's electric utilities law was, says Tepco spokesman Yoshikazu Nagai. Tepco submitted the paperwork on March 30 of this year, and it took effect 20 days later. Bureaucracy has now caught up with reality.
Of course, the fate of the rest of Japan's 50 reactors considered operational is still very much up in the air. Only one — on the northern island of Hokkaido — is still operating, and that one is scheduled to go offline for routine maintenance on May 5. All the other reactors that have been shut down for maintenance over the past year have stayed off in the face of growing public concern over their safety — though the government is pushing hard to restart two in western Japan.
And what about Tepco's six remaining Fukushima reactors? Two are on the Fukushima Daiichi compound, where the radiation is still so high that workers wear hazmat suits and full face masks. Four more are at the nearby Fukushima Daini plant, which is inside the contaminated no-go zone. The governor of Fukushima has called for an end to nuclear power in the prefecture.
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Dimetrious Athas 'Sandbaggers'
Dimetrious Athas 'PRIDE of BALTIMORE'
Dimetrious Athas 'Cadillac LaSalle'
Dimetrious Athas 'AMERICA, Circa 1880'
Dimetrious Athas 'LETTIE G. HOWARD'
Dimetrious Athas 'Heading Out'
Dimetrious Athas 'Close Match, Nantucket'
Dimetrious Athas 'Sandbagger BEAR'
Dimetrious Athas, a native of Salem, MA was educated at Berkeley University, California in commercial design and illustration. Since 1976 Athas has been painting luminous realistic scenes of catboats, sloops and schooners - the remaining splendors of sail which he feel records their beauty for future generations. Each season Dimetrious participates in many races so that he can accurately portray each race. The final intention is to bring to the viewer the feel of the wind in the sails and the drama of the seas.
Athas is a board member of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS (author of the newsletter column "Studio Waves") and was a past vice-president of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MARINE PAINTERS. Images of his painting have been reproduced in both the 2001 & 2000 "Art of the Sea " Calendar - National Maritime Historical Society; Cover of the Friendship Sloop Society's yearbook 2000, "Sea Classics", "American Art Review", "Antiques & Fine Art", "Down East", "Maine Boats and Harbors", and the book "A Gallery of Marine Art" by Rockport Publishing.
Dimetrious Athas has spent the summer following the Friendship, Cat, and Schooner races. Athas was one of only two living marine artists to be displayed at the FOURTH ANNUAL BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS SHOW in November of this year. The U.S. SAILING ASSOCIATION has chosen him to represent them on their greeting cards for 2001. His painting of TANNIS, STRATEGY SESSION was chosen for the front cover of the FRIENDSHIP SLOOP SOCIETY'S ANNUAL YEARBOOK. Several of his images were chosen to represent Gessoboard panels by AMPERSAND Company for national advertisements.
Dimetrious is the author of "Studio Waves" a popular how-to column for the American Society of Marine Artist quarterly newsletter. He is well known for his luminous contemporary race scenes and is now also working on several marine landscapes. An example of his work can be seen in the calendar entitled, ART OF THE SEA 2001.
Dimetrious Athas 'Racing Off Eastern Point'
Dimetrious Athas 'Gloucester Cup'
Dimetrious Athas 'Leading the Pack'
Dimetrious Athas 'ALABAMA'
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